About the campaign
GPs and their teams faced an extremely challenging time during the COVID-19 pandemic. The restrictions have meant that face-to-face contact with patients has been limited in order to keep practice staff and patients safe.
Nearly 30,000 people (29,637) signed the BMA’s petition calling on the U.K. Government to provide the funding and commitment needed to urgently increase the number of GPs, practice nurses and other practice staff and to improve the premises in which they work.
The campaign also provided GP practices in England with the tools to both manage expectations and to provide patients with the reality of issues facing general practice.
What the NHSEI package means for general practice
We believe the Government’s ‘rescue package’ for GPs is flawed and patient care will suffer as a result. Read more in our analysis of the plan.
Get campaign resources
We feel it is important that we are upfront with patients, so they understand the reality that we are all facing and the underlying reasons for this, and that, despite the easing of lockdown, the pressures experienced by general practice and the rest of the NHS are unlikely to ease soon.
To support this we have produced a number of different materials that you can use with patients.
- Template letter for patients about pressures in general practice
- Full colour 'abuse of GPs' poster
- Full colour 'support your surgery' poster
- Reduced ink 'support your surgery' poster
- Mono 'support your surgery' poster
- Full colour 'why GP practices are working differently' poster
- A printable version of the petition to display in your surgery. Please ensure this form is held securely and confidentially destroyed once it is no longer needed. Once completed please scan and email copies to [email protected]
- Visiting your GP poster (England)
- Visiting your GP poster (Wales)
- Visiting your GP poster (Welsh language)
Join the conversation on social media using the hashtag #supportyoursurgery
You can also show your support for the campaign by adding a ‘support your surgery’ twibbon or Twitter banner, and Facebook banner to your social media profiles.
What is happening in general practice? Why aren't there enough GPs? What does this mean for the GP - patient relationship? What needs to be done?
